1.1.3 Multiple submissions: The IET does not permit manuscripts included in its conference proceedings to be simultaneously under review for another conference or publication.

Once a case of multiple submissions has been established, the paper/s in question will be immediately declined for publication by the IET.

1.1.4 Relevance: Is the material appropriate to the scope of the conference to which it is submitted?

1.1.5 Clarity: Is the English clear and well written? Poorly written English may obscure the scientific merit of your paper. Are the ideas expressed clearly and concisely? Are the concepts understandable?

2) Post-print Policy

2.1.1 The author may post post-prints of their conference papers published by the IET on repositories, servers and websites of any sort, provided that these servers are operated by the author’s institution or the funding body contributing to the research. To comply with funding requirements, authors may also deposit their conference papers in repositories (or mirror sites) designated by the funding body.

The conditions attached to this are as follows:

2.1.2 Access to such servers is not for commercial use and does not depend on payment of access, subscription, or membership fees.

2.1.3 The following wording clearly appears on the front page of the post-print:

“This paper is a post-print of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in Conference Proceedings of conference title and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. The copy of record is available at IET Digital Library”

2.1.4 The post-print must be the author’s version and not the IET version/PDF.

2.1.5 The post-print must not be posted prior to publication of the paper by the IET and when posted any preprint version should be removed.

3) Copyright

3.1.1 An author submitting a paper should ensure that he or she has the right to publish the paper and that it contains nothing defamatory. The IET will assume that all co-authors have agreed to the submission of any paper received.

3.1.2 Your conference paper must be accompanied by a signed copyright form.

3.1.3 Copyright: Unless the paper is either “United Kingdom Crown copyright” or “a work of the US Government and in the Public Domain”, the Bylaws of the IET require that copyright should belong to the IET.

3.1.4 Right to publish: An author submitting a paper should ensure that he or she has the right to publish the paper and that it contains nothing defamatory. The IET will assume that all co-authors have agreed to the submission of any paper received.

4) Permissions to Reproduce

4.1.1 All authors must secure permission from the copyright holder for reproducing previously published text, figures and tables. The source of the reproduced material must be given in full and the words ‘Reproduced by permission of …..’ included with the illustration.

II) PDF format requirement

All PDFs shall be set as follows:

File names: The PDF file names will be consecutively numbered in the order that the papers are to be published:

‘001.pdf’ consecutively to ‘999.pdf’
(for up to 1000 files within the conference proceedings).

Version: Adobe PDF Version 1.4 (Acrobat 5)

Fonts: All fonts shall be ’embedded subset’.

Document Properties:

Title: Full title of the paper.

Authors: All contributing author names to be included.

Subject: Full conference name and abbreviation.

Keywords: Keywords as set in the paper at Item 2, Keywords.

III) IET Digital Library and Inspec Indexing requirements

Papers that will be submitted for publication on the IET Digital Library, and subsequent indexing in Inspec, IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex, must be submitted in the following format:

All PDFs must be in the format as specified as stated in Paragraph 3 above (PDF format requirement).

If at any point you are having trouble submitting, or require more information, please contact us at info@medpower2018.com and we will respond back as soon as possible.

Presentation information

Presentation guidelines:

All MEDPOWER 2018 accepted papers must be presented and discussed in person at the conference. Therefore, final acceptance of the paper and its inclusion into the conference proceedings is subject to confirmation of registration of at least one of the Authors and presentation of the paper by them at the conference.

The conference program and the presentation schedule will be available from October 15th, 2018.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS:

–> Each paper has a slot of approximately 15 minutes including presentation and discussion. Therefore, presentations should be planned to last no more than 12-13 minutes so that there is time for a short discussion.

–> Presenters are kindly requested to be in the room for which their presentation has been scheduled at least 15 minutes before the start of the session

–> There is no set PPT or PPTX template that presenters need to use.

–> The provided template (download link below) can be used if authors wish that